[1] This bronze cauldron is one of three inscribed bronze vessels, potentially linked to the Funerary Games (Epitaphios agon). For the other two, see IG I3 523 and 525. When discovered, it contained charred human bones, suggesting that, like 523, it was reused in a burial. A third cauldron of the same type as 523 and 524, but too damaged to tell whether it bore an inscription, was used as a burial urn in the Kerameikos (W. Koenigs, U. Knigge and A. Mallwitz, Rundbauten im Kerameikos [= Kerameikos 12], 1980, 69).